As AI (and associated AI-hype) grows more pervasive in our lives, its impact on society is ever more significant, raising ethical concerns and challenges regarding issues such as privacy, safety and security, surveillance, inequality, data handling and bias, personal agency, power relations, effective modes of regulation, accountability, sanctions, and workforce displacement. Only a multi-disciplinary effort can find the best ways to address these concerns, including experts from various disciplines, such as ethics, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, law, history, politics, interaction design, informatics, social studies of science and technology, communication and media studies, and political science, as well as those with lived experience in relation to the impacts of AI systems. In order to address these issues in a scientific context, AAAI and ACM joined forces in 2018 to start the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

The third edition of this conference will be co-located with AAAI-20 on February 7-8, 2020 at the Hilton New York Midtown, New York, USA. The program of the conference will include peer-reviewed paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and working sessions.

We expect papers will be submitted by researchers using different approaches (e.g., critical, empirical, philosophical, aesthetic, case study, ethnographic, discourse or text analysis).

The conference welcomes contributions on a broad set of topics, to encourage the possibilities for transdisciplinary connections and challenges. This includes but is not limited to the following:

Cultural, political, and other societal impacts of AI

AI and surveillance/manipulation of people

Impact of AI on jobs and work

Meaningful control, safety, and security of AI

AI and geopolitics

AI and vulnerable groups

When, why and how to ban, restrict, cost and tax AI

Ethical models/frameworks around AI and data

AI and environmental costs and impacts

AI and labor, AI and markets

Value alignment and moral decision making

Trustworthy AI systems

Black box systems and modes of investigation and explanation

Ethically-aligned design

Challenges and contradictions in AI-related design, development and ethics

AI and the public interest

Infrastructures of AI

AI and law, regulation and governance

AI and literature, performance, counter-culture, resistance

New/novel AI-related concepts

Speculative future AI design and implications

Innovative methodologies for studying/analyzing AI

Developments in AI concepts, definitions, schools of thought

Submitted papers should adopt a rigorous approach to address any questions related to the above topics. Moreover, they should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance, and its relation to prior research.

Authors should note that changes to the author list after the submission deadline are not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, attend, and present the work at the conference.

We solicit papers (PDF file) of up to 6 pages + 1 page for references, submitted through the EasyChair system. All submissions must be within the specified length limit and in the appropriate AAAI two column format. See the provided templates at

Review will be double-blind, so authors should remove identifying information from their papers. However, authors should report their primary discipline(s) on the first page. After the seventh page, we will allow appendices of unlimited length, but reviewers are not expected to read any of the material in appendices. Therefore, the first 6+1 pages of the paper should be completely self-contained; figures, proofs (or proof sketches), etc. that are key to understanding the paper should be included in them; and excessive reference to appendices should be avoided.

The AAAI formatting templates are intended for final camera-ready copy of accepted papers. The AAAI copyright block is hard-coded into the AAAI paper templates to retain proper spacing, and cannot be removed. It is not considered binding until a paper is accepted and a signed copyright form is submitted by the author. At the initial submission for review stage, it is not necessary to submit source files as supplementary material.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of accepted papers can ask that only a one-page abstract of the paper appear in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full paper. Authors should guarantee the link to be reliable for at least two years. This option is available to accommodate subsequent publication in journals that would not consider results that have been published in preliminary form in a conference proceedings. Such papers must be submitted electronically and formatted just like papers submitted for full-text publication.

Results previously published or presented at another archival conference prior to this one, or published (or accepted for publication) at a journal prior to the submission deadline, can be submitted only if the author intends to publish the paper as a one-page abstract. All other things being equal, we prefer work that is more novel.

The proceedings of the conference will be published in the AAAI and ACM Digital Libraries.

Recognizing that a multiplicity of perspectives leads to stronger science, the conference organizers actively welcome and encourage people with differing identities, expertise, backgrounds, beliefs, or experiences to participate.